{"quotes":[{"text":"They were shiny, shiny people that were bright like light bulbs, but there I stood out like a sore thumb, my dimness flickering self, and they saw it and removed themselves from me, forming their circle of light. Until the night died, they never noticed when the sun broke open its skull of rays, where I laid by the stop sign.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["bullying","circle","die","dimness","friends","hurt","ignore","isolation","lonliness","oppress","people","shiny","society","unwelcome"],"id":7035,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"The entire room turns and stares. There’s no doubt what they see—ripped jeans, a black T-shirt, tattoos and earrings. I don’t care what they see. All I care about is what she sees: a person unwelcomed or the guy she. ","author":"Katie McGarry","tags":["angel","appearance","help","isaiah","love","rachel-young","stare","tears","unwelcome"],"id":28299,"author_id":"Katie+McGarry"},{"text":"The past was just a place where uncontrolled freaks you had never consciously decided to include in your life entered it anyway and staggered around, breaking things.","author":"Alexandra Kleeman","tags":["alexandra-kleeman","intimations","metaphor","the-past","unwelcome"],"id":215323,"author_id":"Alexandra+Kleeman"},{"text":"The searing light of morningAsks unwelcome questions,Fragile hopes soon blistered by daylight.","author":"Scott Hastie","tags":["ask","asking","blister","daylight","fragile","fragile-hopes","hopelessness","light","morning","poetry","poetry-life","poetry","questions","searing","soon","spiritual","unwelcome"],"id":246446,"author_id":"Scott+Hastie"},{"text":"The instinct of self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at the bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them nonexistent, and a warning such as mine against cheap optimism was bound to prove particularly unwelcome at a moment when a sumptuously laid supper was awaiting for us in the next room.","author":"Stefan Zweig","tags":["abundance","awaiting","aware","awareness","banish","cheap-optimism","cowardice","danger","dangers","food","human-beings","humanity","instinct","nonexistent","optimism","self-deception","supper","unwelcome","warning"],"id":283931,"author_id":"Stefan+Zweig"},{"text":"Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and today -- all without seeing him. It is a long time to be alone; still, it is better to be alone that unwelcome. I had to have company -- I was made for it, I think -- so I made friends with the animals.","author":"Mark Twain","tags":["animals","company","lonely","unwelcome"],"id":297698,"author_id":"Mark+Twain"},{"text":"Unless you're prepared to deal with the aftermath, never invite yourself to a situation where your presence is not requested or welcomed. Don't pull out a chair at someone else's table, then turn around and be hurt when you feel unwelcomed.","author":"Terry a O'Neal","tags":["food-for-thought","stay-in-your-lane","uninvited-guest","unwanted","unwelcome"],"id":429517,"author_id":"Terry+a+O%27Neal"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":7,"pages":1}}